The White Hot Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Women Who "Left" Their Children: A Reading List and our BookBrowse Review of The White Hot.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

These are original discussion questions written by BookBrowse.

1. Readers are introduced to the Soto family through Noelle's Our Family Homes classroom presentation. What were your first impressions?
2. What did you think of April's report on the novel Siddhartha by Herman Hesse? What does it tell you about who she was in high school? If you are familiar with the novel, do her thoughts align with your own?
3. What did you think of the depiction of Ohiopyle? How do you think the story might have changed if April had been given a bus ticket somewhere else?

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